The Fifth Committee is the Committee of the General Assembly with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters. Based on the reports of the Fifth Committee, the General Assembly considers ...

The continuing conflict in the Middle East is disrupting global energy markets and pushing up fuel prices, with knock-on ...

From 29 September to 1 October, public sector ministers, permanent secretaries, general directors, CEOs and heads of agencies ...

Rising sea levels and ever-more-powerful storms are eroding shorelines, submerging land and threatening to evict millions of people from their homes worldwide. Yet, for the people of some low-lying ...

The General Debate of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly took place during High-level Week, from 22 to 28 September 2026, at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Held under ...

The September 2026 thematic brief, AI Agents, Misalignment and Loss of Human Control Risks: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident, examines the incident as one of the clearest real-world ...

The ocean and freshwater are part of one interconnected hydrological cycle, but are often short-sightedly managed through ...

The UN warns that a deliberate political retreat from gender equality is reversing decades of progress, and calls for equal power for women everywhere New York, 17 September 2026 – The Gender Snapshot ...

The United Nations system is hoping to make that task much easier with the launch of the UN System Data Commons, a new online platform that brings together data and statistics from across the ...

Chancellor Merz, Excellencies, The Petersberg Climate Dialogue has long helped bridge divides, build trust, and drive ambition.That matters more than ever.The conflict in the Middle East has triggered ...

September 2026 - Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New York, has spent years studying the organization – its highs and lows. Ahead of the ...

I am pleased to share my well wishes with the Global Young Academy and the International Conference of Young Scientists.We are living at a time of unprecedented digital transformation. From climate ...